The Data Advocate Team
Saul D. Klein, GRI, ePRO, CFP
Futurist, Strategist, Trainer, Speaker, Consultant
Saul Klein is widely recognized as the real estate industry’s first Internet Evangelist. He was selected by the National Association Of REALTORS® as one of the “25 Most Influential People in the Real Estate Industry.
John W. Reilly
Real Estate Educator, Author, And Attorney
John, a real estate educator, and attorney is one of the foremost writers of real estate materials, which include 10 books, and numerous articles. His national bestseller, “The Language of Real Estate” is in its eighth edition, selling over 150,000 copies and published by Dearborn Publishing.
Terri Murphy
Communication Strategist, Author, TedTalk Speaker, Trainer, Media Expert, Master Business Coach
Terri brings a depth of industry experience and education to her customers and clients. As a top producing sales professional, she ranked in the top 1% of a major national franchise.
Meet our Contributors.
Jackson Horton
Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder
Horton is an information services executive with experience at IBM, Equifax, and Booz Allen, and co-founder of Places Platform.
Patrick Doherty
Managing Director, ESG
Doherty is a macroeconomic strategist and co-founder of Long Haul Capital Group (LHCG).
William Kane
EVP Business Development/Co-Founder
Kane is a capital markets executive with experience at Warburg Paribas Becker, and co-founder of Places Platform.
Christopher Leinberger
Managing Director Municipal Markets/Co-Founder
Leinberger is the former owner and Managing Director of RCLCo, one of the largest real estate advisory firms in the US, and former Senior Fellow at Brookings. Currently Co-founder & Managing Director of Arcadia Land Co. and Endowed Professor and Chair, GWU Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis.
Edward J. Pinto
Chief Research Officer
Edward J. Pinto is a senior fellow and the director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is currently researching how to increase the entry-level housing supply for first-time buyers and renters who earn hourly wages, as well as examining the current house price boom that began in 2012. This continues his previous work on the role of federal housing policy in the 2008 mortgage and financial crisis.
Colonel Mark Mykleby, USMC (Ret)
Chief Operating Officer
Mykleby is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, former head of strategy development for US Special Operations Command, former strategic assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and co-founder of Long Haul Capital Group (LHCG).
Stuart McFarland
Strategic Advisor/Co-Founder
McFarland is the former EVP Operations and CFO at Fannie Mae, EVP General Manager at GE Capital Mortgage Services, and CEO at GE Capital Asset Management; current public companies board member, and co-founder of Places Platform.
Michael Rodriguez, AICP
Chief Data Officer
Rodriguez is the former Research Director at Smart Growth America, former head of Mid-Atlantic research for CBRE, PhD candidate at George Washington University with thesis regarding place-based agglomeration theory.
Tobias Peter
Chief Research Officer
Peter is the director of research at the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center, where he focuses on housing risk and mortgage markets. He has co-authored a variety of reports on the impact of federal policy on housing demand and homeownership, housing finance risks, and first-time home buyers.